Lincoln robotic surgery company celebrates expansion
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — A Lincoln-based robotic surgery company is opening a new facility.
Virtual Incision developed the world’s first miniaturized robotic-assisted surgery system, called MIRA.
The company hosted an opening ceremony Friday to show off its new headquarters near 14th Street and Old Cheney Road.
It boasts a new surgeon training center, certified manufacturing spaces, offices and engineering benches.
Lincoln Major Leirion Gaylor Baird and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen joined the team at the ceremony.
Virtual Incision was founded in 2006 by two professors from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
They both spent years perfecting their product, a minimally invasive surgical robot for abdominal surgeries.
“We’ve built dozens and dozens and dozens of types of robots to get to this final product here with the MIRA surgical system, all of which have been built here in Lincoln,” CEO John Murphy.
The company said with expansion will bring more jobs opportunities to Lincoln and to the state.
Virtual Incision recently completed a Food and Drug Administration clinical study of MIRA and is waiting for final FDA approval.
